Magazine's map distorts Chinese territory

An Indian magazine has published a map of China on its cover that omits significant parts of the country, including the Tibet autonomous region and Taiwan.

The cover of the July 31 issue of India Today, an English-language news magazine, presents a map of China missing significant land areas.

When a reporter asked on Thursday at a daily news conference in Beijing about the cover of the July 31 issue of India Today, Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang shrugged it off with a question of his own. "Do you take even this little trick seriously?"